Every mixed martial arts fight begins on the feet so it’s a wonder why more fighters don’t develop devastating striking skills and look to lay their opponent out. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of guys out there that have average to above average striking skills, but for all those guys there are twice [...]

How To Explode Your Striking Game! is a post from: MMA News

How To Explode Your Striking Game!
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By Jillian Bullock With summer fast upon us, many guys, who are not MMA fighters, definitely want to look like they are. They have no interest in stepping inside a ring or cage, but to emulate the strength, power and shape of a mixed martial artist is ideal for many men. But how does one [...]

How To Look Like An MMA Fighter (with example training routine) is a post from: MMA News

How To Look Like An MMA Fighter (with example training routine)
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Cross training is a term that gets tossed around a lot in the fitness world.  People try to make it sound more elaborate than it really is and don’t give it enough credit toward taking your game to the next level.  I’ve heard the saying several times, “that if you want to be a fighter [...]

Cross Training for the MMA Fighter is a post from: MMA News

Cross Training for the MMA Fighter
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Mixed martial arts is an activity that will whip you into shape no matter whether you plan on fighting professionally or just want to learn some striking and grappling and go to class a few days a week.  Numerous men and women have reported losing large amounts of weight and turning their lives around just [...]

Get In Shape Like A UFC Pros Through is a post from: MMA News

Get In Shape Like A UFC Pros Through
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As with many fighting or competitive sport you will only go as far as your brain will allow! This is heightened when it comes to point based competitions, winning can be influenced by swaying the judges decisions through some swift moving and strategic techniques. So, From hear on down are some techniques that may be [...]

Get Your Mind Right For Sparring is a post from: MMA News

Get Your Mind Right For Sparring
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Written by: Mike Long Ask 10 MMA enthusiasts what the best grappling art for MMA is and chances are you’ll hear BJJ 10 times. Ask 100 and you might hear Judo once or twice. The reason for this is simple. Ever since UFC 1 when Royce Gracie took the world by storm with his compact [...]

BJJ Vs. Judo for MMA – One Practitioners Opinion is a post from: MMA News

BJJ Vs. Judo for MMA – One Practitioners Opinion
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Elite athletes are always looking to get a leg up on their competition and one way they do so is with the use of supplements, either performance enhancing or muscle development. Not all supplements are bad or banned by the athletic commissions. Whey protein powder is a pretty common supplement that helps build muscle, makes [...]

Protein Powder & MMA: How Much Do You Really Need? is a post from: MMA News

Protein Powder & MMA: How Much Do You Really Need?
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The Marines like the skills and abilities that MMA has to offer their soldiers.  However, with the explosion in popularity and increase in numbers involved in MMA style fighting and training so have the injuries.  The Marines realize that they can’t just let the soldiers have a “free reign” to the tournaments and competitions they setup so [...]

Marines Due Away With “Tough Man” Style Fighting is a post from: MMA News

Marines Due Away With “Tough Man” Style Fighting
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There is no more controversial subject in Martial Arts than the two words Dim Mak, better known in the Western World as pressure points. Practitioners of this controversial Martial Art attest the capabilities of their methods, which concentrate on attacking chi (life force energy) meridians which make the human body vulnerable to knockout, death, or [...]

An Introduction to the Art of Dim Mak is a post from: MMA News

An Introduction to the Art of Dim Mak
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Guest Post by: Tom Demers Mixed Martial Arts, or MMA, has become a popular way to develop a variety of skills necessary to overcome an opponent. At the same time, MMA can be a good source of regular exercise that works the core muscle groups. Strength and agility are required to stay at the top [...]

How to Combat Aging in Mixed Martial Arts is a post from: MMA News

How to Combat Aging in Mixed Martial Arts
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As a martial artist or fighter there are really only 2 ways your MMA training can go; either up so you are facing tougher, more well rounded competition or down meaning you are getting worked over by the lower ranks and newbies. Hopefully you are one of those people who wants to see themselves improve [...]

5 Tips On How To Become An MMA Fighter is a post from: MMA News

5 Tips On How To Become An MMA Fighter
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Biggest Women’s MMA Match in the Last 3 Years On March 3, 2012, one of the biggest women’s Mixed Martial Arts match ups will take place when Strikeforce Bantamweight Champion Miesha Tate is set to defend her title against Olympic Bronze Medalist in Judo and rising MMA star Ronda Rousey. This fight is going to [...]

Ronda Rousey vs Miesha Tate On March 3, 2012 is a post from: MMA News

Ronda Rousey vs Miesha Tate On March 3, 2012
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When you hear people talk about flexibility in the martial arts world the first thing that comes to mind is a full set of splits. The most plausible reason for this association is from all of those old school TaeKwonDo guys showing off their splits and high kicks. While a full set of splits is [...]

3 Key Areas to Unlock your Flexibility is a post from: MMA News

3 Key Areas to Unlock your Flexibility
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Before you get in the ring – get a taste for the real thing! Fans of MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) are passionate about their sport and its athletes—so much so that many want to move from pure spectator to MMA fighter. MMA training is evolving constantly as coaches and athletes improve training and nutrition techniques. [...]

Top 10 Apps in 2012 for MMA Training is a post from: MMA News

Top 10 Apps in 2012 for MMA Training
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By Jillian Bullock Although several MMA fighters, including Vitor Belfort, Kenny Florian, Lyoto Machida, Anderson Silva, Rich Franklin, Chris Leban, Cung Le, and Nick Diaz, fight as southpaws some of these guys were born a lefty and some are “deliberate southpaws.” They taught themselves to fight as southpaws because they found it to be an [...]

Do Southpaw MMA Fighters Have An Advantage? is a post from: MMA News

Do Southpaw MMA Fighters Have An Advantage?
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